Documentation needed around manipulating st.text_input elements

I couldn’t find on the docs how to reset a st.text_input.

By reset, I mean the user fill the text_input, do other things… And when clicking a “Finish” button, the text_input is reset to its default value.

How can I achieve this ?

[jrhone]

Hey @Colanim

Here’s a workaround that will allow you to reset the widget value without using an empty space as the value. It also works OK in the sidebar.

We’ll be using a SessionState class which is kind of a hack at the moment. Find the code for SessionState at this gist, https://gist.github.com/tvst/036da038ab3e999a64497f42de966a92

import streamlit as st
import SessionState


state = SessionState.get(key=0)

ta_placeholder = st.empty()

if st.button('Clear'):
    state.key += 1

x = ta_placeholder.text_area('Some text', value='', key=state.key)

x

We’re currently working on some ideas on how to improve this!

[sumitkutty]

Was this solved? I wanted the clear the input_text() area for a chatbot after the response is received. Does someone know how to do that?